Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (July 25, 1920 – April 16, 1958) was an English biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite. Sourced Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. in answer to her father, who accused her of making science her religion, as related by Brenda Maddox Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA‎ Perennial 2003 0060985089 61 What’s the use of doing all this work if we don't get some fun out of this? As quoted by Aaron Klug, interview , 17 June 2005 The results suggest a helical structure (which must be very closely packed) containing 2, 3 or 4 co‐axial nucleic acid chains per helical unit, and having the phosphate groups near the outside. Notes from November 1951 about Franklin's electron microscopy imaging of DNA, which led to Watson & Crick's publication of the structure of DNA by sixteen months. As quoted in How Rosalind Franklin Discovered the Helical Structure of DNA: Experiments in Diffraction (in The Physics Teacher 49, 140 (2011); doi: 10.1119/1.3555496), quoting Rosalind Franklin and DNA (2000), page 15. External links Category:Jews from the United Kingdom Category:Physicists from England Category:1958 deaths Category:Biophysicists Category:Women scientists from England